Odd Section Breaks

G

Griff

Hi
I have a document which needs to be printed double sided. New sections
should start on a new page, but on an odd page. However, I want the page
numbers to continue.

For example, I put an odd page break after page 9. If printed then page 9
will print double sided with a blank page on the back (which is correct). I
then want to insert a new odd section, but I want the page number to start at
page 10....(and not 11).

Any ideas. Apologises if this has already been answered, but I have spent
an hour looking through all the messages.
 
J

Jay Freedman

There's no way I've ever seen to coerce Word into printing genuinely
even-numbered pages on the "front" side of duplexed sheets. That means you
can't use the "set section starting page" function for this. However, the
"page number" that prints on the paper doesn't have to be the real page
number. :)

If you know that section 1 will end on an odd page and there will be a blank
unnumbered page on the back of it, you can open the header/footer of section
2 and replace the {Page} field with {= {Page} - 1}. The result of this field
will be 1 less than the actual page number.

Don't try to set this up until the document has been completely edited and
formatted. Otherwise you'll get into a near-endless round of adjusting the
page numbers after every edit.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill

Note, however, that this is a very perverse and confusing thing to do.
Publishing convention is that odd pages are always verso (right-hand) pages
and vice versa. That's what readers expect, and you'll only confuse them if
you buck the convention.
 
G

Griff

Hi, I agree it is very perverse, but when you are putting a document into PDF
format, then the blank pages do not show....so the page numbers jump, for
example page 1,2,3....5...

However, is there a way of creating an IF statement in word. For example,
if the previous page is blank then PAGE NUMBER is -1, otherwise PAGE NUMBER
stays the same.

Sorry to be a pain.
 
J

Jay Freedman

Although there is an IF field construct, I don't think there's a way to make
it depend on whether the preceding page is blank -- the field doesn't know
anything about the preceding page.

But "printing" to PDF is quite different from printing on paper; for one
thing, there's no concept of "duplex" in PDF. Make a copy of your document
specifically for PDF conversion, and fix it up as described in
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/InsEvnPgEndChap.htm.

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

I'm not sure what you mean by this; when I create PDFs, the blank pages are
included in the result, and they certainly "show" if I page through the
document.
 
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